![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a book in which to burrow, a book to return to in dark times. A collection of essays that are both profoundly theoretical and deeply personal, it invites us to reflect upon our own pedagogical and scholarly practices in a manner rooted in our personal histories and social conditions and anchored in a political commitment to transformation. She invites us to experience teaching and learning as a practice of freedom: Teaching to Transgress (Routledge, 1994) is a book to be read slowly, and more than once. There’s nothing like fighting a good fight to pull us out of a deep funk. Entering the third year of the pandemic, with many still reeling in the aftermath of the typhoon Odette or struggling to recover from a surge in COVID infections, and with the national elections fast approaching, we are facing the coming months steeped in an undercurrent of palpable anxiety.Īs a teacher, I worry about infecting my students with this feeling of world-weariness that I can’t seem to shake off. If you somehow feel the same way, you might wish to join me in finding some inspiration in bell hooks’s book, Teaching to Transgress. ![]() Many of us are probably at the threshold of a new semester in a year that seems to have begun on the wrong foot. Bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021) ![]()
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